Answer of Section 2, Question 1

The main thrust of her argument was that wage differences, far from being ______, do in fact reflect education, skills, experience, and other factors that make employees more productive.

官方解說：

The sentence is summarizing an author's conclusion about wage differences. The phrase "far from being" before the blank indicates that the author's conclusion is at odds with some other idea about wage differences. The author, we learn, holds that wage differences do reflect several relevant factors in the workplace, such as education and skills. Therefore, the blank must be filled with a word that would describe the opposite state of affairs, that is, one in which wage differences fail to correlate with meaningful criteria.

Thus the correct answer is arbitrary.

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